Schools Matter: If The Plan Is to Kill Us With Tests, Then We Will Kill the Tests

Schools Matter: If The Plan Is to Kill Us With Tests, Then We Will Kill the Tests:

If The Plan Is to Kill Us With Tests, Then We Will Kill the Tests

by Jim Horn

As Michael Winerip points out in his commentary below, the line has been drawn between those who believe that a 26 point margin or error is good enough to make high stakes education policy decisions, and those who now ask Cuomo, Bloomberg, Duncan, and Gates: "Have you no shame?"

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From the NYTimes. My bolds:

Feb. 28, 2012, 11:18 a.m.

By Michael Winerip

I’m delighted that the New York City Education Department has released its teacher data reports.